The acceleration of oceanic denitrification during deglacial warming

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 579-584

  Galbraith, Eric D ^a   Kienast, Markus ^b   Albuquerque, Ana Luiza ^c   Altabet, Mark A ^d   Batista, Fabian ^e   Bianchi, Daniele ^a   Calvert, Stephen E ^f   Contreras, Sergio ^g   Crosta, Xavier ^h   De Pol Holz, Ricardo ⁱ   Dubois, Nathalie ^j   Etourneau, Johan ^k   Francois, Roger ^f   Hsu, Ting Chang ^l   Ivanochko, Tara ^f   Jaccard, Samuel L ^m   Kao, Shuh Ji ^l   Kiefer, Thorsten ⁿ   Kienast, Stephanie ^b   Lehmann, Moritz F ^o   Martinez, Philippe ^h   McCarthy, Matthew ^e   Meckler, Anna Nele ^m   Mix, Alan ^p   Möbius, Jürgen ^q   Pedersen, Tom F ^r   Pichevin, Laetitia ^s   Quan, Tracy M ^t   Robinson, Rebecca S ^u   Ryabenko, Evgeniya ^v   Schmittner, Andreas ^p   Schneider, Ralph ^w   Schneider Mor, Aya ^x   Shigemitsu, Masahito ^y   Sinclair, Dan ^z   Somes, Christopher ^c   Studer, Anja S ^m   Tesdal, Jan Erik ^r   Thunell, Robert ^aa   Terence Yang, Jin Yu ^ab   more..

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d U Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^j WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^l RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^m GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

ⁿ PAGES International Project Office   (Switzerland)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^p OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^s UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^t OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^v GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^w UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^x STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^y HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^z RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^ab XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEGLACIATION; DENITRIFICATION; GROWTH RATE; HOLOCENE; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NITROGEN CYCLE; SEA SURFACE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

EID: 84879768324     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1832     Document Type: Article

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